Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-25
LOVE ON A ROOF.
Two nizorce Suits the Sequel of Now York
Hotel Life.

Hotel Life.
NEv, YORK, April 10 There is trouble
in that well known nostelrY, the Gerdey
house. Eminent lawyers are engaged in
drawing up papers in two separate suits
for absolute divorce, the hotel being the
scene upon which the copjugsl crimes are
alleged to have been committed. The
dramatis persona involved are Mr.. Wal
ter B. Bowers, one of the proprietors of
the hotel,.and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs.
Nealis, guests of the establishment.
Walter B. Bowers is the Oldest son of
Mrs. D P. Bowers, the actress. His wife,
Mrs Hannah Bowers, is the sister of
Marie Gordon, John T. RaymOnd's first
wife. She is tall and stately brunette,
of very distinguished bearing Mr..
Nealis is middle-aged gentleman of am
pie means, but Of somewhat retiring
and taciturn disposition, while his wife is
huXom brunette, with very lively man
ners and OF very gay bearing.
One day, it appears, Mrs. Bowers was
indulsing in that favorite female pastime
OF going through her husbands pockets
when she lighted upon momentons dis
covery. This discovery wore tae guise
of little hslf-sheet of pink note paper,
folded together in the form of the regu-
lation billet-doux. IForKedi lightning would
not have had an opportunity of trav-
cling any appreciate distance in the
time it took Mrs. Bowers to open up that
little pink scroll. Having opened # she
discovered half dozen lines of writing
in what is commonly known as
large "English" hand. Mrs. Bowers
does not, however, seem to have taken so
much interest in the English AZURE of
the handwriting as she did in its decided
ly feminine character. The large, Eng
Iish handwriting on the pink note paper
read:
"MY Darling: How much longer are
you going to stay boxed up in that horrid
Office down stairs, talking nasty business?
Please, dear, get through as soon as you
can and come up on the roof and hug
your own "GRAsSHOPPER."
This somewhat extraordinary commu,
nicatiOn addressed TO Mr.. Bowers by this
alleged small animal OF the fields seemed
to have had the effect of throwing
Mrs. Bowers into condition of
suspicion and jealous frenzy. Care
fully COncealing, however, her true frame
of mind, she, according TO the attida
Wits made by her, at once set a watch
urOn her husband, and on the following
night her eyes was upon him as he as
cended to the roof to keep his amatOry
engagement with the grasshopper.
NOiselessly following him there few
minutes later, she found him with his
arm entwined around g brunette grass
hopper of very mature proportions, whose
plump wing also EMBODIED Mr.. Bowers.
This grasshopper, it is averred in the
complaint, was no less a parsonage than
Mrs. Nealis.
But Mrs. Bowers is a cautious woman.
Instead of making a tableau there and
then, she retired unseen, and, with Grass
hoppsr's communication in her hands,
sought out Mr.. Nealis. When that gen
item IN was made acquainted with the sit
.uationtie is said to have hoped about in
n style worthy of true grasshOpper's
mace. In any event, certain it is that he
joined Mrs. Bowers IN her amateur de-
tective work, and before long, it is aver
red, that they had each secured ample
proof of marital infdelity.
As before stated, papers in suits for di-
vorce sre being drawn up in behalf of
Mr.. Nealis and Mrs Bowers. In the lat
ter's suit woman named Duval is a Joint
Correspondent with Mrs. Nealis. Mrs.
Bowers suit will come before the courts
IN few days on q motion for alimony
and counsel fee.